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Re: Authentication over HTTP

Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> Mon, 15 July 2013 08:39 UTC

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On 15 Jul 2013, at 01:15, M Stefan <mstefanro@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Nowadays, the only serious way of providing secure communications over
> HTTP is using HTTPS. Many web hosts are reluctant to using it because
> of the extra computational burden and the necessity of buying
> certificates. Some sites cannot afford being part of it or simply
> do not agree with the idea of paying a certificate authority money.

The problem of cost could be solved by deploying DANE in browsers
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6698 
It would make the internet more secure all the way around.

Computational cost is no longer a problem. Google and Facebook provide
it with billions of connections a day.

Henry

Social Web Architect
http://bblfish.net/

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